Hi Gaurav, I think you can find something similar in md/dm code for RAID stripping. Rajat On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Gaurav Mahajan <gauravmahajan2007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a doubt regarding the handling of bios. > > Suppose I receive a bio at some layer, and I want to split it into > multiple bios. There are layers below the one I am working on and the > final I/O operations will be handled by those layers. So, basically , > after some processing, I want to hand over the bio to the lower layer. > Now, if I have split the original bio into multiple bios and submitted > all the newly formed bios, I shall receive each such bio in the > bio->bio_end_io function. > > Here is it necessary to merge these bios so that the original bio can > be formed or is it ok to just split the original bio, receive the > requested data in multiple bios and leave it at that ? > > Looking forward to some help..... > > Regards, > Gaurav > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
